Despot Surname
Approximately 2,455 people bear this surname
Despot Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croatia | 740 | 1:5,714 | 786 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 538 | 1:6,573 | 1,337 |
| United States | 421 | 1:860,948 | 65,474 |
| Serbia | 340 | 1:21,015 | 2,390 |
| Canada | 116 | 1:317,634 | 29,153 |
| Australia | 63 | 1:428,503 | 33,982 |
| Slovenia | 58 | 1:42,891 | 7,610 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 54 | 1:25,259 | 2,766 |
| France | 21 | 1:3,162,987 | 209,042 |
| Switzerland | 15 | 1:547,528 | 38,365 |
| Germany | 14 | 1:5,750,390 | 205,224 |
| Poland | 13 | 1:2,923,750 | 116,258 |
| Venezuela | 11 | 1:2,745,825 | 29,869 |
| Austria | 10 | 1:851,544 | 67,454 |
| Sweden | 8 | 1:1,230,845 | 90,587 |
| South Africa | 4 | 1:13,544,426 | 222,367 |
| England | 3 | 1:18,572,686 | 338,250 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Kosovo | 2 | 1:930,934 | 12,188 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Montenegro | 1 | 1:639,565 | 9,092 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Czechia | 1 | 1:10,633,469 | 206,023 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 14 | 1:3,587,049 | 158,810 |
The alternate forms: Despót (1) are calculated separately.
Despot (518) may also be a first name.
Despot Demographics
Average Despot Salary in
United States
$46,475 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Despot Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Despot Come From? nationality or country of origin
Despot occurs most in Croatia. It can be found as: Despót. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Despot? popularity and diffusion
Despot is the 174,692nd most frequent family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 2,968,450 people. The surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 72 percent of Despot live; 68 percent live in Southeastern Europe and 68 percent live in South Slavic Europe. Despot is also the 371,231st most frequently occurring first name on earth, held by 518 people.
The last name is most frequently held in Croatia, where it is borne by 740 people, or 1 in 5,714. In Croatia it is mostly concentrated in: City of Zagreb, where 39 percent reside, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, where 18 percent reside and Split-Dalmatia County, where 10 percent reside. Aside from Croatia it occurs in 34 countries. It is also found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 22 percent reside and The United States, where 17 percent reside.
Despot Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Despot has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Despot last name grew 3,007 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Despot Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Despot surname are 9.37% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 56.14% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Despot earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 7.71% more than the national average, earning $46,475 USD per year and in Canada they earn 26.82% more than the national average, earning $63,010 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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